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It will be many months before presidential candidates face their respective conventions, but for the time being the Democrats are winning the wallets of technology workers.

Finance reform bars corporations from directly funding campaigns, but that doesn’t stop individuals from backing candidates of their choice. And according to Network World’s analysis of candidates’ most recent filings to the Federal Elections Commission, those technology workers donated far more to Democratic presidential candidates than did their Republican counterparts since the inception of each candidate’s campaign. The two frontrunning Democrats outpaced the three Republicans examined: $393,444 to $36,588. Network World reviewed the campaign finance reports of the two candidates from each party who are currently leading the polls and also included former HP chief Carly Fiorina.

The FEC breaks out contributions to each presidential campaign by individual name as well as company that person works for, and Network World went through the list to pick out those from technology companies. The interactive chart below shows a full list of the technology companies. Hillary Clinton led the pack with $289,241 in contributions from this slice of donors, while fellow Democrat Bernie Sanders brought in $104,203.

In contrast, the two leading candidates in the Republican race combined did not even reach $25,000. Ben Carson leads the Republicans with $17,622 in contributions while Donald Trump has only received $5,746. Fiorina received more than twice as much as Trump, with $13,220 in donations. Her former company’s employees, however, did not show her much love by giving her only $1,877 compared to Sanders' more than $36,000 (see a breakdown by leading tech companies).

Clinton has collected from fewer people identified as tech company workers than did Sanders, but still outpaces him in overall funding from this collection of donors. Sanders’ grass-roots efforts have attracted donations from employees at 48 tech companies while Clinton is not far behind with 43. The two Democrats found common contributors from companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Red Hat, Salesforce, T-Mobile, Twitter, VMware and Yahoo.

Clinton's biggest donors were employees from Dropbox with a total of $81,000. Google employees also were generous toward Clinton at more than $47,000.

The three Republican candidates reviewed received funds from a total of 46 companies.

Contributions reviewed for this article showed that Cisco, Dell, Microsoft and Oracle employees supported all five candidates. Employees from Apple, HP and IBM supported four of the five candidates. The one candidate left out: Trump.

Dollars for Democrats

Bernie Sanders

Hillary Clinton

Adobe

$985

AMAZON

$2,417

Akamai

$259

ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ

$2,700

Alcatel-Lucent

$500

AOL

$12,100

Amazon

$8,184

APPDYNAMICS

$2,700

AMD

$250

APPLE

$27,490

Apple Computer

$6,207

APPNEXUS

$4,700

Arbor Networks

$751

ASG

$1,000

Axis Technology

$50

AVG TECHNOLOGIES

$100

APPDYNAMICS

$300

BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION

$3,200

APPNETA

$!50

BMC SOFTWARE

$100

ARBOR NETWORKS

$250

CISCO

$4,175

AT&T

$50

CLEARVIEW NETWORKS

$2,700

AXIS TECHNOLOGY

$2,397

CLOUDERA

$500

BROADCOM

$300

DELL

$3,230

CASCADIA SOFTWARE

$632

DROPBOX

$81,000

CISCO

$350

EMC

$2,078

CITRIX

$3,601

FIREEYE

$8,100

COMMVAULT

$250

GATES FOUNDATION

$1,750

COMPUTER ASSOCIATES

$711

GODADDY

$2,942

DELL

$35

GOOGLE

$47,571

F5 NETWORKS

$3,933

HOOTSUITE

$2,700

FACEBOOK

$1,224

HP

$9,026

FORTINET

$3,241

IBM

$9,863

Google

$250

ICANN

$421

HEWLETT PACKARD

$36,849

JUNIPER

$1,000

IBM

$1,321

KICKSTARTER

$130

INTEL

$8,120

MICROSOFT

$12,196

MICROSOFT

$3,814

NETAPP

$1,226

MOZILLA

$8,619

NETSUITE

$2,700

NETAPP

$271

ORACLE

$6,315

NETSCOUT

$1,805

PALO ALTO NETWORKS

$300

ORACLE

$250

QUALCOMM

$8,950

PALO ALTO NETWORKS

$1,513

RED HAT

$3,200

PROOFPOINT

$250

RUCKUS WIRLESS

$2,700

PURE STORAGE

$250

SALESFORCE

$6,803

RACKSPACE

$200

SAP

$550

RALLY SOFTWARE

$50

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY

$500

RED HAT

$1,042

T-MOBILE

$225

SALESFORCE

$139

TWITTER

$5,271

SAP

$776

VERIZON

$2,011

SYMANTEC

$650

VMWARE

$2,250

T-MOBILE

$597

YAHOO

$351

TERADATA

$388

Total

$289,241

TWITTER

$250

VERIZON

$463

VMWARE

$1,644

YAHOO

$232

Total

$104,203

Federal Elections Commission

Republicans campaign contributions

Donald Trump

Carly Fiorina

Ben Carson

CISCO

$250

AMAZON

$2,700

A10 NETWORKS

$250

CITRIX

$250

APPLE

$25

AMAZON

$989

DELL

$294

AT&T

$925

AMD

$1,000

MICROSOFT

$200

CISCO

$925

APACHE CORPORATION

$20

ORACLE

$250

DELL

$300

APPLE

$100

PCS SOFTWARE

$2,700

HP

$1,877

AT&T

$1,396

QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES

$500

IBM

$1,950

BROADCOM

$25

SAMSUNG

$52

INTEL

$300

BROCADE

$250

SECURITAS

$250

MICROSOFT

$1,650

CISCO

$1,490

UNIVERSAL TECHNOLOGIES

$1,000

NETSUITE

$600

DELL

$1,100

Total

$5,746

ORACLE

$343

EMC

$3,700

RSA SECURITY

$125

FACEBOOK

$250

SYMANTEC

$1,000

HP

$100

VERIZON

$500

IBM

$2,250

Total

$13,220

INTEL

$550

LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS

$900

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES

$80

MICROSOFT

$580

NETAPP

$725

ORACLE

$1,087

PROOFPOINT

$575

SPRINT

$205

Total

$17,622

Federal Elections Commission

This story, "Techies back Democrats in Presidential race" was originally published by
Network World.